Anxiety Before Retirement and War

“I left for that final vacation before my retirement in a state of anxiety that the entire stone circle would have collapsed by the time I got back to Dnipro. Russia’s war drums were beating more loudly than ever they had for the previous seven years at that time too. Things seemed to be falling apart.”

Source: Journeying · Ukraine’s Stone Gods

Personal anxiety (retirement) and geopolitical anxiety (approaching invasion) fused into one narrative moment. The stone circle’s potential collapse mirrors everything else falling apart.

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